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21.9 Resampling from histograms
A histogram made by counting events can be regarded as a measurement of
a probability distribution. Allowing for statistical error, the height
of each bin represents the probability of an event where the value of
x falls in the range of that bin. The probability distribution
function has the one-dimensional form p(x)dx where,
p(x) = n_i/ (N w_i)
In this equation n_i is the number of events in the bin which contains x, w_i is the width of the bin and N is the total number of events. The distribution of events within each bin is assumed to be uniform.
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